“No available cars,” the police dispatcher tells a police unit attempting to deal with [another outbreak of] looters. Sam’s Meat Market, a K Mart, a Taco Bell, a self storage facility and other buildings are burning to the ground without any fire department intervention (as is the protocol during a riot). There are reports of a gunman in the bed of a pickup truck firing off rounds and “gunmen in the hot zone with assault rifles.” Store owners are calling police as cars mass for attacks of looting. Police at the sharp end are calling a Code 5000: “personnel in serious situation,” asking for more officers. It’s only a question of time before the National Guard are deployed. One hopes.

Maybe the thinking was that most amateur videographers don’t have night vision recording capabilities? Also, it’ll be more believable when the officers say they shot people because it was dark and it looked like they had a gun, which later turned out to be a phone/wallet/hand/whatever.

Amateur is you. 9pm was the perfect time for most law-abiding people to be home safe with their families before the madness started. Not many people are on the street at 9pm… a crap ton are at 8am, including children.

In AZ it’s legal if you have reason to believe the building is occupied. They have a specific line in the self defense statutes for it.
In WA (and probably many other states) it’s legal if there’s a reasonable cause for you to fear for your safety or the safety of others.
It makes sense, because if somebody starts a fire in an occupied building, it can be murder.

Yes. The rioters and looters are going to work themselves into a frenzy.
It’s going to be L.A. Ala Rodney King.
I hope not, but this has been brewing for a bit. What with the black rebel group offering a $5,000 dollar reward for the whereabouts of officer Wilson, planned “protests” with specific targets.
What the heck does Toys r us have to do with anything?

Toys R us has the same thing involved that the auto parts store and liquor store have, goodies inside to be looted. You were looking for logic? Afraid not, it’s stealing while the stealing is good, no one will stop them because there are too many. It was really sad to watch.

Vice reporter Danny Gets Old was following protesters and go-pro kids, when scared off by “real live bullets” coming “from across the Quik Trip area” (ie not police, and. toward journalists, amiong others..)

Not long after the looting started, whenever a TV crew showed up the looters threw random objects at them to discourage them from taping and to leave, so that their crime wasn’t on tape. I guess they upped their arsenal. Animals.

I’m listening to the scanners now. Apparently they are holding off 100 looters at gunpoint at the toys r us. I just heard there are 2 to 3 HUNDRED people headed toward the justice center. The cops are really freaking over that one. A taco bell has already been looted and burned.

I know you intended to just write what you are hearing but these words are profoundly disturbing. During the first Ferguson riots, there were people with small businesses who lost everything they had when their stores were looted and burned. I hope the people defending their jobs and property save what they have.

“. . The police understand that gun sales have risen, says St. Louis County police sergeant Brian Schellman, but do not want residents to circumvent their authority. “We understand that people feel threatened and whatnot, but that’s what the police are for and we hope that they use our services,” he says. “If you feel that there’s a threat toward you or your family or your property, then you need to contact the police and not take concerns into your own hands . . ”

Sad. What does all of this prove? Not a damn thing. Half the rioters could give a sh*t less about the no-bill and are only doing it to steal and destroy and get away with it. I wonder how many bodies they’ll find once the smoke clears.
On the bright side, it’s calm and peaceful here in my small Ohio farm town.

I’ve seen some estimates that business in the epicenter area of Ferguson has been down by as much as 80% over the past few weeks. And now those same businesses, most of them locally owned and operated, are being looted and burned.

It’s not just the politicians, but media, too. Whenever I turned to CNN’s coverage, their talking heads were kinda sorta condemning the looting, but called it an understandable reaction to the verdict. They were trying hard to make excuses for what was happening. Unbelievable.

CNN has deliberately and consistently concealed important facts about this case to whip up racial animosity from the beginning.

First, there are a number of black eye witnesses that backed up Wilson’s account of events. CNN consistently concealed the race of witnesses that backed up Wilson’s account.

Then, last night, CNN continued this practice by omitting the detail that three of the grand jurors are black as well – two women and one man. Six of the jurors are white men, three are white women. CNN’s implied message is that the grand jury is all white.

There are no “innocents’ here. I say that they should announce that they will shoot any one standing in two minutes. Everyone on the ground – spread eagle. Round up everyone and throw them into a makeshift jail.

We wouldn’t want the police to do anything that could be considered “brutal.” Especially not if it happens to be something regarding a black man.

On one hand I’ve always wondered if a ‘purge’ would give people a lesson in why the police sometimes have to stop young men walking down the street (after a robbery). On the other hand, the sad thing is that the people losing their businesses and property are probably mostly hard-working citizens who live there.

I hope some looters get taken out by business owners. Maybe it’ll send a message.

FORGET FERGERSON, 244 TEENAGERS have been SHOT In CHICAGO since MICHAEL BROWN PERISHED!

While the events down in Ferguson play out, back in Chicagoland, HeyJackass reports that the same old bullshit continues day in and day out with nary a peep. In the 107 days since officer Darren Wilson shot and killed 18 year old Michael Brown – 12:03pm, Saturday, August 9th – the following stupidity has taken place in Chicago: